Explanation of Statistics Gathering

Running copies of NVDA contact the NV Access server to check for updates once every 24 hours. Each update check request is recorded as one usage of NVDA in a day. As we know that One single NVDA cannot make more than one update check request per day, we can safely say the amount of update check requests in a day equates to the minimum amount of running copies in a day.

The actual numbers might be higher than reflected here due to users not having internet access, or they may have disabled update checking completely. However, the data does give us a rough idea of usage patterns.